Posts Tagged: "Justice Anthony Kennedy"

An untold story of the patent “reform” era is how the High Court (as well as the Congress) blithely accepted an exaggerated narrative spun by the PR campaign of the Coalition for Patent Fairness (CPF). It might have been more accurately named the “Coalition for Patent Weakness.” That is what its massive PR/lobbying campaign relentlessly sought and the result CPF members ultimately got, including at the Supreme Court. But how did it happen? To see it emerging, one need only look at three opinions of retired Justice Anthony Kennedy:  eBay in 2006, KSR in 2007 and Bilski in 2010. Then compare his many factual assertions, although unsupported, except for two, to the widely publicized narrative of the CPF.